Medicine

As a physically healthy 24-year old female faces a battle with depression, Belgian doctors have decided to help her give in to defeat. By granting her her death wish, physicians have confirmed to her - and other depressed people in her situation - that her life is not worth living in the eyes of society.

Belgian Intensive Care doctors have now said, in very clear terms, that the law - regardless of what it does and does not allow - does not affect them. They and they alone will decide who lives and who dies in their hands, adults, consenting or not, children and all.

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